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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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...the crazy never die.
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
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The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely watching TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.
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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
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